Would any of you enjoy reading a "dresden-esque" novel with heavy christian undertones? I feel that we christian readers don't have books that could be classified as "action/fantasy" usually. (Most christians are discouraged from reading books with wizards and witches..lol). Anyway, give me some opinions, some feed back . Thanks a lot, have a great day!

Heavily Christian books are usually published by Christian presses.  Someone I know is slogging through The Oath by Frank E. Peretti right now.  I'm told it's one of the better selling titles in Christian speculative fiction.  My impression is that most sf/f publishers won't touch anything too overtly religious, while Christian publishers won't publish anything that isn't heavily allegorical.  It sounds like what you want is halfway in between, unfortunately.

Plenty of Christians are told to think for themselves and read whatever they want.  (lol)  If a group has a problem with Harry Potter, I don't think you're going to appease anyone by reading or writing more overtly Christian fantasy novels.  Write whatever pleases you personally.

I am working on a novel in which Newton followed up the Principia with the Praxis Artis Magnis, codifying the rules of alchemy and simple sorcery and enabling it to become a scence;

The Wikipedia article on alchemy lists a bunch of sources.  You could also check out feng shui books if you're looking for an ordered system.

I'd certainly like to get published; I'd certainly listen to an editor.  Good editors, though, from what I have seen, tend not to mess with the fundamental nature of the story. This is why they are so busy and take so long to get to manuscripts by unknowns. *sigh*

I've also heard that there has been a shift in the publishing industry over the years towards less and less content editing.  (Obviously there are still plenty of overworked acquisitions editors and copyeditors.)

I like the "snowflake method", personally.  (You can google it.)  A lot of people find that just sitting down and writing works best for them, but I like to know exactly what my plot is going to be ahead of time.  I often brainstorm great general ideas but find, when doing my detailed outline, that I don't have enough plot for a story of the length I intend to write.  I'd rather find that out during the outline than half way through a novel when I suddenly need to add five subplots-worth of padding.

That's 'piece', not 'peace'. 

I agree that finishing a first draft and then going back and editing is a great idea.  You may find that some of the clues are implausible and need to be eliminated (e.g. forensic evidence when none of your characters could possibly know anything about forensics).  Maybe others need to be introduced earlier or later in your story than you had originally intended.  Without more specifics, it's hard to give specific advice.  Are you writing a play?  Is there a gun on the mantelpiece? 

Got my paper back today. Yeah I got dinged for no reason. She knocked 40 points off my paper for small gammar mistakes which was suppose to be only 20% of the grade on the paper. Content was 60% and I had tons of that. Eh Well you win some and you lose some.

Aww man, that really sucks.  Did she say exactly what she was taking off for?  At least you're probably nearly done with this class, right?

Most of all, though, competent translators are not cheap when working freelance. I'm one of the few with a full-time contract; I'm making okay money at it (in exchange for stability and reliability of paycheck - you'd be amazed at how many companies hire cousin Fred who took a year of language X back in high school to do their "translations" because it's cheaper that way),

Yeah, no kidding.  I have vague aspirations of being a translator, but unfortunately, I'm more cousin Fred level in all of the foreign languages I've studied.  Out of curiosity, are you a literary or technical translator?  I know companies love to "save money" by hiring idiots to do the technical stuff, but I thought the problems with literary translation went beyond that--that there just isn't enough of a market in the US for translated fiction to support a proper crop of professional literary translators.  It seems like everything really famous/good/important is translated by a professor and anything pulpy by someone with no creative writing skills.  (Well, ok, not everything, but it does sometimes feel that way.)